Making of an empire. As a bold young man, Chandragupta Maurya, the future king of the Mauryan Empire, allegedly offered some brash advice to Alexander the Great, who had crossed the Indus River ...

Empire of the Ants’s multiplayer modes have some clever ideas for how insects do battle, having you scurry around as a commander giving orders and casting buffs on your legions of bugs.

The last days of dying empires are dominated by idiots. The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanoff, Iranian and Soviet dynasties crumbled under the stupidity of their decadent rulers ...

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is about to bring Marvel’s First Family into the fray, and you can read all about it in the new issue of Empire, on shelves from Thursday 5 June. In the meantime ...

Google’s (GOOG, GOOGL) massive search empire faces its largest existential threat as US District Judge Amit Mehta prepares to decide whether to splinter the company’s most lucrative business ...

In the fall of 1922, a 26-year-old F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, moved into a Mediterranean-style house on Long Island, N.Y. Their stay lasted only 18 months; a move to France would follow.

UNESCO’s comments confirm what experts already know: despite substantial money and effort, threats to the Great Barrier Reef aren’t going away.

Elon Musk recently swapped his Dark MAGA hat and government “Tech Support” garb for his old “Occupy Mars” T-shirt, a reference to his rocket company SpaceX’s mission to colonize the red ...

The sun set on the once powerful British Empire nearly 78 years ago. Yet, the borders hastily drawn by British officers, often conceived to best serve the colonial rulers, continue to haunt South ...

Research on the 1935 Quetta earthquake is shockingly limited, where anthropologists and historians can study colonial policies and particularly as they stand with reconstruction efforts following ...

World’s Richest Family: Waltons’ $432 billion empire surpasses economies of nations What began as a humble retail venture by brothers Sam and Bud Walton in 1962 has today evolved into a global ...

Actor Devin Harjes, known for his roles in "Boardwalk Empire" and "Daredevil," died on Tuesday, a representative confirmed to NBC News. He was 41.